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Technorati Taking a Leave of Absence From Power 150

cmoran@adage.com(Charlie Moran) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:08:29 -0400

As of today, Technorati and Bloglines will be lifted from the Power 150.

Google PageRank, We Barely Knew Thee

cmoran@adage.com(Charlie Moran) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:01:14 -0400

As we mentioned in the last post, we've been having issues with Google PageRank, and some blogs have been unfairly receiving zeroes from it lately. Today we fixed the problem by removing PageRank altogether.

Why Your Google PageRank Score Is Zero

cmoran@adage.com(Charlie Moran) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:27:22 -0400

Some of you may have noticed that your PageRank scores have dropped to zero lately, and you were probably a bit confused. So were we.

Raising the Bar, 30 Steps at a Time

cmoran@adage.com(Charlie Moran) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:52:31 -0400

As of today, we're adding PostRank into the pre-evaluation mix and raising the minimum objective point total 50, which will put new blogs around the 720-730 mark when the enter the Power 150.

Getting in Shape, Just in Time for Summer

cmoran@adage.com(Charlie Moran) — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:29:52 -0400

Early this morning we implemented a few changes on the back-end that will make computing your scores easier and more reliable for our poor server. Most of them will be invisible to the outside world, but, in the process, we've shifted to a more consistent, and, we think, fair scaling mechanism, which you may have noticed.

Please Welcome PostRank to the Power 150

cmoran@adage.com(Charlie Moran) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:11:55 -0400

For a while now, we've been trying to find a way to make the Power 150 more dynamic so that that it's more reflective of current trends/influences and more fun to watch on a daily basis. After weeks of effort on the part of ourselves and the fine people at AideRSS, we'd like to announce our best stab at achieving these goals with the arrival of PostRank metrics on the Power 150.

How to Properly Redirect Your RSS Feed

rpavlovic@adage.com(Rahmin Pavlovic) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:53:24 -0400

Redirecting one's RSS feeds has been an ongoing issue -- on and off the Power 150 -- and can have serious ramifications to how your blog is ranked. There seems to be a lot of (mis)information about this online, so let's see if we can settle the score here.

Power 150 Stabilizes Its Metrics

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:05:06 -0400

As of last week, we stabilized two aspects of the Power 150 that caused some blogs to randomly slip in rank.

Power 150 Wins SABEW Award

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:23:24 -0400

Ahem ... we'd like to announce that Ad Age's Power 150 won the Society of American Business Writers and Editors' Best in Business award in the Creative Use of Online category.

Badge Gets Facelift, Facebook Gets Widget

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:10:53 -0400

As you may or may not have noticed, the Power 150 badge got a facelift recently -- and it's not just sexier: it loads faster on your page, leaves a smaller footprint behind and has been widgetized for Facebook support.

Why Ask Y!?

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:34:47 -0500

As some of you have already noticed, the Yahoo! Site Explorer API hasn't been updated scores for some time now. Here's what we're doing about it.

You Must Be This Tall to Ride This Ride

cmoran@adage.com(Charlie Moran) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:28:11 -0400

Power 150 Creates New Entry Requirements, Stiffens Others

Help Us Help You by Helping Us

rpavlovic@adage.com(Rahmin Pavlovic) — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:14:25 -0400

It Is Your Blog, After All

How to Make Friends With Technorati

cmoran@adage.com(Charlie Moran) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:08:13 -0400

With all the emails we've been getting about Technorati issues, we're starting to feel a bit like Santa, except, you know, the Santa that everyone hates, aka Don Imus. So we thought we'd save all of us some time and also shine some light on why some people's scores have been dropping mysteriously.

New Metric, FAQ and Submission Screen

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:41:21 -0400

How our Makeover Affects You

Technorati API Problems

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:18:55 -0400

Or, Why I Dropped 100 Points in a Day

Welcome to the Power 150 Blog

cmoran@adage.com(Charlie Moran) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:26:32 -0400

... Now Get Out